"I'll have a slice of HOPE, please."

I just read online that Barack Obama just got lunch today at "Manny's" in the Loop at 12:29pm. Picked up his corned beef sandwiches, paid the bill in cash, shook some hands and got out of there.

I like Manny's. I've been there several times for lunch with Hendo, when I used to work down in the Loop. I think that's awesome. I would like to be enjoying a lunch and have Barack Obama walk in. I would like to shake his hand and tell him how proud I was that he won the election.

Living in the president's hometown for the next four years will be a periodic and random source of coolness. Coolness like this.